IRUHARAMA SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
The following is a list of the Committee of the Iruharama School at Whanganui, chosen on the 6th day of June last, for the ensuing year:— 1. Paora Poutini. 2. Rewi Raupo. 3. Toma Taiwhati. 4. Keepa Tahukumutia, Treasurer. 5. Menehira. 6. Te "Watene. 7. Richard W. W\)on, Esq., R.M., Chairman. I
! The latest reports from Calcutta state that in the famine districts of India there are now one million three hundred and forty-two thousand persons on the relief works, two hundred thousand receiving charitable aid, and four hundred and fifty thousand supported by advances or sales of grain. The condition of the people is generally better, but severe distress occasionally breaks out, famine telling cruelly upon the children, hundreds of whom are nearly fleshless. Distress is extending rapidly among the cultivating class, who eagerly seek grain advances. Rains have been falling in some districts, but not in sufficient quantity to allay anxiety. About one hundred thousand pounds has been remitted to India from the Mansion House Fund, beside several large sums from Manchester and other northern cities.— {Evening Post.) The ship " Waikato," from London, with 369 immigrants on board, arrived in the Wellington harbour on Saturday, the 11th instant; and the ship "La Hogue " 1,331 tons, sailed for London via Sydney the same day. The " Waikato " has 600 tons of railway iron on board for Auckland. The Natives in the upper "Whanganui district have been found to be 2,004, of which number 823 are males and 644 females above fifteen years of age. Under that age there are 294 males and 243 females.
The Native population in that district is considered to be very permanent. The quantity of coal raised in Great Britain in 1872, was one hundred and twenty-three millions three hundred and ninety-three thousand eight hundred and fifty-three tons, and the lives lost in raising the coal amounted to one thousand and sixty; thus showing one hundred and eleven thousand four hundred and nine tons were raised for each life lost-
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Waka Maori, Volume 10, Issue 14, 14 July 1874, Page 179
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337IRUHARAMA SCHOOL COMMITTEE. Waka Maori, Volume 10, Issue 14, 14 July 1874, Page 179
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